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(Model) G. F. WHITING. Manufacture of Celluloid Boxes.

Patented Sept. 7,1880.

UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE F. WHITING, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE OELLULOID MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MANUFACTURE OF CELLULOID BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,095, dated. September '7, 1880.

Application filed March 25, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE F. WHITING,

of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Manufactures of (Del luloid Boxes, of which the followingis aspect fication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The invention relates to an improvementin cans, boxes, and other receptacles for packing and exhibiting goods. I contemplate its employment chiefly in connection with the tops or covers, of cans in which merchandise of different descriptions are marketed; but it may be successfully used ina great number of ways and for a multiplicity of purposes.

The object is to provide a means whereby the contents of a vessel may be seen without breaking the package and without rendering it insecure or liable to injury from ordinary usage.

The distinctive novelty of the invention consists in the employment of a veneer of transparent or translucent pyroxyline, celluloid, or analogous material, which is cemented so as to form a part of the vessel, as hereinafter more specifically described.

In the accompanying drawings are shown a number of embodiments of the invention which will be readily understood.

Figure 1 is a view showing an application to the top of a can; Fig. 2, an embodiment showing the front of a cracker-box; Figs. 3 and 4, other embodiments.

As illustrating the method of manufacture, I describe the application as shown in Fig. 1. A round or circular section of the top of the can having been removed, the veneer or piece of transparent or translucent celluloid or pyroXyline B, or analogous material, is secured to it by means of appropriate cement or other adhesive material, the cement being spread upon the margin of the interior side of the ring and the veneer pressed upon it in any appropriate way.

I recommend the employment of celluloid cement; but other cements may be used with good results.

The simplicity of the invention is such that its nature and desirable methods of practic- (ModeL) ing it will be readily understood without extended explanation.

It is obvious that a veneer or piece of any shape may be employed, according to circumstances, as may be preferred.

I recommend the employment of my invention in connection with vessels or receptacles made of sheet metal, particularly tin; but it may be successfully used in connection with vessels or receptacles made of wood and other materials, although it may be necessary to adapt the cement to the requirements of each particular case.

While I have described utensils in which the veneer or piece is cemented upon the inside of the receptacle, and prefer to employit in that way, it is plain that the veneer may be attached upon the outside of the receptacle, substantially herein explained, without materially varying the result. I do not, therefore, limit myself to any particular application.

What Iclaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A receptacle a part orsection of which is formed of transparent or translucent celluloid or analogous material, for the uses and purposes substantially as shown and described.

2. A can or box the top of which is formed in part of a veneer or sheet of transparent or translucent celluloid or analogous material, substantially as shown and described.

3. A metallic can or box formed in part of a veneer of transparent or translucent celluloid or analogous material, substantially as shown and described.

4.. A receptacle formed in part of aveneer of transparent or translucent celluloid or analogous material, cemented or fastened at its edges upon the interior surface of the receptacle, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing improvement in manufactures of celluloid, as above described, I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of March, 1880.

GEORGE F. WHITING.

W'itnesses:

GEO. H. SAMPSON, STILLMAN H. LIBBY. 

